EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order amends the list of prescribed rural housing bodies in the Title Conditions (Scotland) Act 2003 (Rural Housing Bodies) Order 2004. “Mull and Iona Community Trust” is added to the list of prescribed rural housing bodies. Rural housing bodies are bodies in favour of whom it is competent to create a rural housing burden comprising a right of pre-emption under section 43(1) of the Title Conditions (Scotland) Act 2003.

A Business and Regulatory Impact Assessment has been prepared and placed in the Scottish Parliament Information Centre. Copies can be obtained from the Scottish Government, Civil Law and Legal System Division, GW.15, St Andrew’s House, Regent Road, Edinburgh EH1 3DG.